See this article; http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/34002463 A-side from the fact I cant understand how Citeh can keep splashing cash with FFP and restrictions - this amongst many other signings (e.g. Sterling, etc) show we need to be getting higher values for our players. Bony should have fetched another 8-10m. Not convinced we had full value for Ben. Vorm went way to cheaply. We have to ensure any bids for any of our prized stars bleed every lasy penny from the purchasing club. They are happy to pay over the odds elsewhere - so lets follow suit - aka Southampton. If this guy is fetching 30m + - is he more established than Fenrnadez? Maybe he is - but there surely isn't such a gulf between them to allow Fernandez to go for anything less than 20m on these rates!? Montero has to be 30m + given his age and what he is doing to teams. Maybe more. Stones is even generating 30m bids!!
The price of players ans especially English players has gone nuts. After my club being on the end of some daft purchases I was glad to cash in on Sterling.
FFP has been relaxed allowing Man city and others to start spending again. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/fo...lay-rules-that-saw-Manchester-City-fined.html
That Mangala for Man City was £30 odd million. Based on that, we have sold Bony too cheaply for sure. I agree that when you look at what other players have gone for, we need to be placing a higher value on ours.
Bony, Allen and Sinclair we sold for a total of 50m. Can't remember how much we sold Davies and vorm for, think it was 10m plus Siggy? But that would bring our total up to 60m plus a highly valued player. When you consider that with this money we got, Shelvey for 5m, Ki for 5m, Naughton 5m, Montero for 4m, Cork for 3m, Fernandez for 8m? Ayew, Fabianski and Gomis free, Siggy as part of the selling deal. That's 9 first team players (plus one sub from cork, shelvey or ki) with a 30m profit and our squad is leagues stronger than it was. I'd say we've done pretty damn well on the transfer front. I know you think we should be selling for more, but then should we also be buying for more? Were not selling cheap by any means, but we certainly are buying for cheap. Were expected to have a crack at the top 6 this season with 11 first team players costing 28m... Basically the sale of Bony has bought our starting team. Keep doing what were doing I say. Because the more we make clubs pay, the more likely they are to return the favour when we are looking to buy.
These so called free transfers are not really free. What we are doing is allowing their contracts to run down and then paying them higher signing on fees and salaries than we would normally do. If we then get a couple of seasons out of them and sell them on for large transfer fees it makes sound business sense at the moment. Hopefully there will come a time when we are really established and don't have to do this any more.
I think the player values are skewed by the transactions of the top four and Liverpool, all of who are prepared to pay exorbitant prices for players they covet. Transactions through the rest of the league though seems far more sensible, offering value for money and a decent return on investment.
I'm stealing your first paragraph to quote on our site It is a glowing reflection on you guys and a damning one on us!
I completely agree we have in the majority of occasions done very well on the buying front - but how often are we buying players from the Top 4? They are the ones paying the exorbitant fees - so we should bleed them like the other clubs and get full value for our star performers. Bony was top goal scorer and in his prime - 28m is far short of what he should have gone for. Same for Vorm - an established PL goalkeeper.
not sure if this is realistic but a site has Fabianski 4.9 Fernandez 8.3 Williams 4.55 Tabanou 4.2 Taylor 3.15 Naughton 3.8 Ayew 9.1
